The World Health Organization (WHO) says it was trying to get access to Nasser Hospital, Gaza’s largest functioning medical facility, following an Israeli raid on the facility.
“There are still critically injured and sick patients that are inside the hospital,” WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic says of Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
“There is an urgent need to deliver fuel to ensure the continuation of the provision of life-saving services…We are trying to get access because people who are still in the Nasser medical complex need assistance.”
Israel’s military called the raid on Nasser Hospital “precise and limited” and said it was based on information that Hamas terrorists were keeping hostages in the facility, with some bodies of captives possibly there.
It said on Thursday that it had arranged the transfer of medical supplies and fuel to the hospital in coordination with international organizations.
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